The Living Age, Volume 240Living Age Company, 1904 - Literature |
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... carried on , our con- versation has much degenerated . " Elizabeth Elstob liked neither Swift's theory nor his pleasantry ; and she did not shirk an encounter with the great man in her preface . " I cannot but . think it great Pity ...
... carried on , our con- versation has much degenerated . " Elizabeth Elstob liked neither Swift's theory nor his pleasantry ; and she did not shirk an encounter with the great man in her preface . " I cannot but . think it great Pity ...
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... carried to the grave in June , 1756 . This concluding chapter of her life thus lasted more than sixteen years , years from which little can be gleaned except impressions of rather fluctuat- ing content invaded by the growing weakness of ...
... carried to the grave in June , 1756 . This concluding chapter of her life thus lasted more than sixteen years , years from which little can be gleaned except impressions of rather fluctuat- ing content invaded by the growing weakness of ...
Page 36
... carried in his waistcoat - pocket possessed the powers of a magic wand . A beneficent stroke of it would make a man happy and put money into his pockets ; a quick dash of it shore the venom from many a hastily written paragraph and ...
... carried in his waistcoat - pocket possessed the powers of a magic wand . A beneficent stroke of it would make a man happy and put money into his pockets ; a quick dash of it shore the venom from many a hastily written paragraph and ...
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... carried out , and she had friends of her own to see ; and Jacker- ry found the time heavy on his hands . He turned some of his ample leisure to good account by writing long letters to his father and mother in Rarotonga , and even ...
... carried out , and she had friends of her own to see ; and Jacker- ry found the time heavy on his hands . He turned some of his ample leisure to good account by writing long letters to his father and mother in Rarotonga , and even ...
Page 42
... carried a full cargo of Bristol milk , and was so deep loaded with it as to be half seas over during the most part of the voyage . I left her at Alaska , and chartered a half- deck fishing - boat in which to pursue the more private end ...
... carried a full cargo of Bristol milk , and was so deep loaded with it as to be half seas over during the most part of the voyage . I left her at Alaska , and chartered a half- deck fishing - boat in which to pursue the more private end ...
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Page 161 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 362 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Page 325 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 362 - And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Page 184 - Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term: Thence shall I pass, approved A man, for aye removed From the developed brute; a God though in the germ.
Page 687 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Page 427 - Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want...
Page 360 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 315 - He is a man speaking to men — a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind...
Page 692 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.